Hey, Really appreciate your project. I think it's a very necessary undergoing, and I'm glad that you've taken it upon yourself to restore these heritage wheat grains. When you're finally ready to distribute it, it will be a blessing to us all. It's a shame we so much content on organically grown vegetables on RUclips, but see so very few on wheat. Many people I've seen have struggled with grain harvest and losing their yield. It seems you've developed a solution with the wide grate on your scythe; does this stop the grain heads breaking up when harvested? Thank you. The wife watched this with me and loved it. God bless.
Seems you’ve ramped things up from sustaining a family to sustaining a town. I like the idea of preserving the wheat berries up until use rather than milling a bunch of flour. Both videos I’ve watched were enjoyed. Now I’ll watch the others
Thank you Supramby! I am working on other videos explaining the journey from 2017 to 2021. There has been as much victory as defeat - as much loss as gain. I have learned much. Your comments are endearing to me.
@@baneverything5580 Only once I put whole wheat berries in a soup. I boiled them until they became soft and added them to the soup for content. Other than that no. I have wanted to see if someone with home brew equipment might try to make a wheat beer out of it, but I have not pursued it much. Thank you for your comments and the other comments about callouses on hands. I love playing drums also.
Looks like your wheat was low in protein maybe in last video, dense bread. Maybe a bit more N? As far as mechanization I use a #4 copper ground wire as a flail in a drill press to thresh. I use a 4” exhaust fan to blow chaff out. Your set up looks neat too. My Mockmill kitchenaid attachment will grind about 3 cups of flour in 6 minutes, a guy should of gotten a bigger mill like the Mockmill 100 maybe.
This makes me think it might be cool if there was a mill at the local store or something. If people were to grow their food on a small scale themselves and then take it in to the local store for processing. But, that’s awesome you have the equipment now to do it yourself more efficiently. I really hope you no longer get black lung, that was horrible sounding. Hope you all stay healthy, and I think it’s great to learn this. I’d like to learn too, starting out with a small garden. My family is kinda split between city and country. My dad grew up in the city whereas my mom grew up in the country on a farm. I always like the country a bit more. I like making something with your own hands and the peacefulness. It just feels more like home.
Thanks Narnia. As to your first paragraph, that is exactly how life was prior to about the 1960's. Most communities in the American South, had a water-powered mill nearby, where farmers brought the wheat and corn they grew to be ground into flour and corn meal. The truth is I only have minimal equipment to do all the tasks that growing wheat requires, but I do have access to an 1800's water-powered mill that has been restored and is in operation, that can grind the wheat into flour. For that I am blessed by God. One more thing - as to the "black lung" comment: that was sarcasm and a play-on-words. There is a real disease called black lung, which is generally associated with coal miners. I used that term in jest - only trying to express that after working the dusty operation of wheat threshing, sometime coughing produced dark phlegm. It is not uncommon. Country living is more suited to humans as created by God. Humans can adapt to city life for sure, but will find the most peace in rural environs. Thanks for watching!
Like to know this crop went. I'm growing wheat again her in S.W. Michigan. Did it before about three years ago. This time I got late. So It is my time to try planting spring wheat. The plot has a been fallow from weeds. Really looking forward to get it in the ground this spring. I have a scythe I need to set up with a cradle to help harvest the grains. I've got my threshing figured out but I would like to find a thresher like the one you showed here which I could barrow the time comes.
Not many places still make them, and those that do in the USA are very expensive. It is better in my opinion to find an antique one, like in this video, and rehab it. Another option would be to buy one from overseas - through alibaba, but then you have to pay freight, customs, and hope that what you ordered from China is what is actually delivered. Because sometimes it's not. The hand-crank machine in this video is actually called a "Fanning Mill", so if you look up that term you will see more responses than googling "thresher & winnower". What this video does not show is that it didn't really work for us. You can kind of tell this because in the time-lapse video me and my son alternate turning the hand crank and feeding the wheat. This was because it wasn't doing the job and I was trying to figure out what to adjust. It was missing a belt that would have turned the drum screen. Thank you for watching and good luck on the wheat project.
Amazing my friend! Way to go family. Grateful for this video, North Carolina here as well! I just watched a video and seen they used a weed eater in a 5 gallon bucket on their wheat. I was hesitant to watch the video at first. Time is very important as I’m sure we are all coming to innerstand better. But I’m glad I did, it help me greatly, especially how I perceive things, my social conditioning and this” western mindset” of barriers and mental blocks I didn’t even know existed within myself. Video length 24:49 he speaks of scientific research has been done and going to be posted in science journal ( I most definitely want to see this article ) ruclips.net/video/TNR8JfHah00/видео.htmlsi=KMUYTLBNl4ll9P3T Video length 1.59 weed eater part ruclips.net/video/awLae2XWA-8/видео.htmlsi=lXGINDOSmUIlxP2a Edited: You will not be disappointed in watching the videos. Very interesting view and math his uses to calculate. And other unique ideas, which I some how think we use to know these things. Very odd feeling, how the body just knows. Not odd in a bad way, but definitely observing what that is and means to me.
This is awesome . You’ve got some good kids there.
Hey,
Really appreciate your project. I think it's a very necessary undergoing, and I'm glad that you've taken it upon yourself to restore these heritage wheat grains. When you're finally ready to distribute it, it will be a blessing to us all. It's a shame we so much content on organically grown vegetables on RUclips, but see so very few on wheat.
Many people I've seen have struggled with grain harvest and losing their yield. It seems you've developed a solution with the wide grate on your scythe; does this stop the grain heads breaking up when harvested?
Thank you. The wife watched this with me and loved it. God bless.
Seems you’ve ramped things up from sustaining a family to sustaining a town. I like the idea of preserving the wheat berries up until use rather than milling a bunch of flour. Both videos I’ve watched were enjoyed. Now I’ll watch the others
Thank you Supramby! I am working on other videos explaining the journey from 2017 to 2021. There has been as much victory as defeat - as much loss as gain. I have learned much. Your comments are endearing to me.
@@jassiuswise Have you tried cooking the wheat in other ways besides flour?
@@jassiuswise That`s what my hands looked like after a four hour show on drums.
@@baneverything5580 Only once I put whole wheat berries in a soup. I boiled them until they became soft and added them to the soup for content. Other than that no. I have wanted to see if someone with home brew equipment might try to make a wheat beer out of it, but I have not pursued it much. Thank you for your comments and the other comments about callouses on hands. I love playing drums also.
Great video - I love seeing this kind of stuff!
uv done much better this year i must say
Looks like your wheat was low in protein maybe in last video, dense bread. Maybe a bit more N?
As far as mechanization I use a #4 copper ground wire as a flail in a drill press to thresh. I use a 4” exhaust fan to blow chaff out. Your set up looks neat too.
My Mockmill kitchenaid attachment will grind about 3 cups of flour in 6 minutes, a guy should of gotten a bigger mill like the Mockmill 100 maybe.
This makes me think it might be cool if there was a mill at the local store or something. If people were to grow their food on a small scale themselves and then take it in to the local store for processing.
But, that’s awesome you have the equipment now to do it yourself more efficiently.
I really hope you no longer get black lung, that was horrible sounding. Hope you all stay healthy, and I think it’s great to learn this. I’d like to learn too, starting out with a small garden.
My family is kinda split between city and country. My dad grew up in the city whereas my mom grew up in the country on a farm. I always like the country a bit more. I like making something with your own hands and the peacefulness. It just feels more like home.
Thanks Narnia. As to your first paragraph, that is exactly how life was prior to about the 1960's. Most communities in the American South, had a water-powered mill nearby, where farmers brought the wheat and corn they grew to be ground into flour and corn meal.
The truth is I only have minimal equipment to do all the tasks that growing wheat requires, but I do have access to an 1800's water-powered mill that has been restored and is in operation, that can grind the wheat into flour. For that I am blessed by God.
One more thing - as to the "black lung" comment: that was sarcasm and a play-on-words. There is a real disease called black lung, which is generally associated with coal miners. I used that term in jest - only trying to express that after working the dusty operation of wheat threshing, sometime coughing produced dark phlegm. It is not uncommon.
Country living is more suited to humans as created by God. Humans can adapt to city life for sure, but will find the most peace in rural environs.
Thanks for watching!
Like to know this crop went. I'm growing wheat again her in S.W. Michigan. Did it before about three years ago. This time I got late. So It is my time to try planting spring wheat. The plot has a been fallow from weeds. Really looking forward to get it in the ground this spring. I have a scythe I need to set up with a cradle to help harvest the grains. I've got my threshing figured out but I would like to find a thresher like the one you showed here which I could barrow the time comes.
Good family!
Thank you Moreno. My sons are dear to me and they seem to love helping out. Thank you for watching.
Thanks in this day and age where mobile phone contains 5 billion transisters we must have an efficient way for people to grow their own wheat at home?
What museum has the hand crank threshing/winnower? I'd like to go look at it a bit closer.
I found out that machine is called a "fanning mill", but it did an okay job of cleaning wheat. It's not a museum. It's a historic site.
I grew some wheat this year. Threshing and winnowing is a bear. Do you know if they make machines like that hand crank thresh and winnower?
Not many places still make them, and those that do in the USA are very expensive. It is better in my opinion to find an antique one, like in this video, and rehab it. Another option would be to buy one from overseas - through alibaba, but then you have to pay freight, customs, and hope that what you ordered from China is what is actually delivered. Because sometimes it's not. The hand-crank machine in this video is actually called a "Fanning Mill", so if you look up that term you will see more responses than googling "thresher & winnower". What this video does not show is that it didn't really work for us. You can kind of tell this because in the time-lapse video me and my son alternate turning the hand crank and feeding the wheat. This was because it wasn't doing the job and I was trying to figure out what to adjust. It was missing a belt that would have turned the drum screen. Thank you for watching and good luck on the wheat project.
@@jassiuswise thank you for the response. Helpful info !
Amazing my friend! Way to go family. Grateful for this video, North Carolina here as well!
I just watched a video and seen they used a weed eater in a 5 gallon bucket on their wheat. I was hesitant to watch the video at first. Time is very important as I’m sure we are all coming to innerstand better. But I’m glad I did, it help me greatly, especially how I perceive things, my social conditioning and this” western mindset” of barriers and mental blocks I didn’t even know existed within myself.
Video length 24:49
he speaks of scientific research has been done and going to be posted in science journal ( I most definitely want to see this article )
ruclips.net/video/TNR8JfHah00/видео.htmlsi=KMUYTLBNl4ll9P3T
Video length 1.59
weed eater part
ruclips.net/video/awLae2XWA-8/видео.htmlsi=lXGINDOSmUIlxP2a
Edited:
You will not be disappointed in watching the videos. Very interesting view and math his uses to calculate. And other unique ideas, which I some how think we use to know these things. Very odd feeling, how the body just knows. Not odd in a bad way, but definitely observing what that is and means to me.